youtube

youtube-go

Small package for searching Youtube videos and getting information about them. It can read video formats and also does signature descrambling so the library can be easily used to download videos.

Full documentation can be found at: http://godoc.org/github.com/adrg/youtube-go

Installation

go get github.com/adrg/youtube-go

Usage

Get video information

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	youtube "github.com/adrg/youtube-go"
)

func main() {
	video, err := youtube.GetVideo("uFknAPhEcQM")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}

	fmt.Printf("Title: %s\n", video.Title)
	fmt.Printf("Id: %s\n", video.Id)
	fmt.Printf("Duration: %d\n", video.Duration)
	fmt.Printf("Description: %s\n", video.Description)
	fmt.Printf("View count: %d\n", video.ViewCount)
	fmt.Printf("Rating: %f\n", video.Rating)

	fmt.Println("Formats:")
	for _, f := range video.Formats {
		fmt.Printf("  * %d - %s %s ===\n", f.Itag, f.Type, f.Quality)
		fmt.Printf("    URL: %s\n", f.URL)
	}
}

Search for videos

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	youtube "github.com/adrg/youtube-go"
)

func main() {
	// The search parameters include the query, the page you want
	// to get results for and the maximum results allowed
	searchParams := &youtube.SearchParams{"amv", 1, 3}
	videos, err := youtube.Search(searchParams)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}

	for _, video := range videos {
		if err = video.ReadFormats(); err != nil {
			fmt.Println(err)
			// Handle error here
		}

		fmt.Printf("Title: %s\n", video.Title)
		fmt.Printf("Id: %s\n", video.Id)
		fmt.Printf("Duration: %d\n", video.Duration)
		fmt.Printf("Description: %s\n", video.Description)
		fmt.Printf("View count: %d\n", video.ViewCount)
		fmt.Printf("Rating: %f\n", video.Rating)

		fmt.Println("Formats:")
		for _, f := range video.Formats {
			fmt.Printf("  * %d - %s %s ===\n", f.Itag, f.Type, f.Quality)
			fmt.Printf("    URL: %s\n", f.URL)
		}

		fmt.Println()
	}
}

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Adrian-George Bostan.

This project is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more details.